NVIDIA / TransformerEngine

A library for accelerating Transformer models on NVIDIA GPUs, including using 8-bit floating point (FP8) precision on Hopper and Ada GPUs, to provide better performance with lower memory utilization in both training and inference.
https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/transformer-engine/user-guide/index.html
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Port down up may cause hang when using TE in training. #866

Open holmes313 opened 1 month ago

holmes313 commented 1 month ago

The port flap may cause hang when using TE in training job. I found the latest code added CE deadlock detection. BTW, What is CE deadlock? How can we avoid this kind of hang? Thanks.